Here’s everything you need to rid yourself of the 260 character shackle and create big paths to your heart’s content!

First, you can edit the Group Policy. To do so, enter gpedit.msc into the Windows 10 search box. From there, navigate to the following: Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Filesystem > NTFS. Double-click on the Enable NTFS long paths option to turn remove the 260 character limit.

If you don’t have a version of Windows that supports editing Group Policy, then you can use the Windows registry editor. Use the windows search box and type regedit. Navigate to the following key (it’s a deep one):

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